The federal government has announced the new prices of petroleum products for the next 15 days, according to the current notification, the price of petrol is 5 rupees 45 paisa per litre, the price of diesel is 8 rupees 42 paisa per litre, and the price of light diesel is 8 rupees 42 paisa per liter on the other hand, imports of petroleum products for the current financial year During the first 9 months, an annual decrease of 8 percent was recorded according to the statistics released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, during the period between July and March 2023, foreign exchange expenditure of 12.084 billion dollars was spent on imports of petroleum products It is 8 percent less compared to the same period of the financial year.
In the same period of the previous financial year, foreign exchange was spent on imports of petroleum products of 13.083 billion dollars In March 2024, the volume of imports of petroleum products spent foreign exchange of 1.506 billion dollars, which is 25% more compared With March last year In the year March, the volume of imports of petroleum products was recorded at 1.206 billion dollars. Compared to February, imports of petroleum products have increased by 21 percent monthly in March. Foreign exchange expenditure of 1.246 billion dollars was spent on importing petroleum products in February.
